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Varang is a tired and messy trope. “I’ve suffered so I’m going to burn the world down”. Gurl same, get therapy and stfu
Like the sneering about Eywa because of a volcanic explosion that took her village out -her entire villain arc is based on an obtuse understanding of god and nature? Fuck off
Elendil’s dark blue outfit
Costume design: Kate Hawley
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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Fun Random Facts About the LOTR Soundtrack
Most composers spend just 10-12ish weeks working on a film’s music. John Williams spent around 14 weeks on each Star Wars movie, 40ish weeks total for the whole OT……but composing the LOTR trilogy’s soundtrack took four years
The vocals you hear in the soundtrack are usually in one of Tolkien’s languages (esp. Elvish). The English translations of the lyrics are all poems, or quotes from the book, or occasionally even quotes from other parts of the films that are relevant to the scene
When there were no finished scenes for him to score, Howard Shore would develop musical themes inspired by the scripts or passages from the book. That’s how he got all Middle-Earth locations have their own unique sound: he was able to compose drafts of “what Gondor would sound like” and “what Lorien would sound like” long before any scenes in those places were filmed
Shore has said his favorite parts to score were always the little heartfelt moments between Frodo and Sam
Shore wrote over 100 unique leitmotifs/musical themes to represent specific people, places, and things in Middle Earth (over 160 if you count The Hobbit)
The ones we all talk about are the Fellowship theme, the main Shire Theme, and the themes for places like Gondor, Mordor, Rohan, and Rivendell…but a lot of the more subtle ones get overlooked and underappreciated
Like Aragorn’s theme. It’s a lot less “obvious” than the others because, like Aragorn himself, it adapts to take on the color of whatever place Aragorn is in: it’s played on dramatic broody stringed instruments in Bree, on horns in battle scenes, softly on the flute with Arwen in Rivendell….
Eowyn has not just one but three different leitmotifs to represent her
Gollum and Smeagol both have their own leitmotifs! Whose theme music is playing in the scene can often tell you whether the Gollum or Smeagol side is “winning” at the moment
The melody for Gollum’s Song in the end credits of the The Two Towers is the Smeagol and Gollum themes smushed together (it’s Symbolic)
And then there’s the really obscure ones. Like there’s a melody that plays at Boromir’s death that shows up again in ROTK in scenes that foreshadow a major death or loss
Wikipedia actually has a list of these leitmotifs, click this link and scroll down to check it out if you’re bored
Shore wanted the theme music to grow alongside the characters– so that as the characters changed, their theme music would change with them.
You can hear that most clearly in the Shire theme. Like the hobbits, it goes through A Lot
Like compare the childish lil penny whistle theme you hear in Concerning Hobbits/the beginning of FOTR with (throws a dart at random Beautiful Tragic Hobbit Character Development scene because there WAY TOO MANY to choose from) the scene when Pippin finds Merry on the battlefield, where you hear a kind of shattered and broken but more mature version of that same theme in the background
I could write you a book on how much I love the way the Shire theme grows across the course of these films
Unlike the hero’s themes, which constantly change and grow, the villain’s themes (The One Ring theme, the Isengard theme, etc) remain basically the same from the very beginning of FOTR to the end of ROTK. Shore said this was an intentional choice: to emphasize that evil is static, while good is capable of change
Shore has said that between all the music that made into the movies and the music that didn’t, he composed enough for “a month of continuous listening”……..where can I sign up
supervillains fucking hate fighting the x-men because the teams change constantly and sometimes there are??? totally new people there???? fuck there’s a teenager who literally just has eyes all over his body. is he even technically a superhero yet or is he a student. who the fuck knows. how do we counter this shit
When one seems completely non-mutated and they’re like
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And no matter which team it is, Wolverine is there. Is it the future? Wolverine is there. Is it an alternate reality? Wolverine is there. Is Wolverine dead? Wolverine is there.
Was Wolverine never born in this alternate reality? Wolverine is there.
Does Wolverine only exist as a non corporeal spirit? Wolverine is there.
Is Wolverine only a philosophical construct used to explain our place in an uncaring universe? Wolverine is there.
Is Wolverine only a theological concept used to explain mankind’s struggle against the universe? Wolverine is there.
Is Wolverine there? Another Wolverine is also there.
And let’s not forget when the villains just switch sides. Last week this guy was on your side now he’s next to Wolverine and kicking your ass.
The only constant is Wolverine.
There are three constants in life: death, taxes, and Wolverine.
This entire thread sounds like Magneto woke up at 3am, wrote the whole thing with his eyes closed, then rolled over and went back to sleep.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Did he realize Wolverine was in there?
“girls should be allowed to wear what they want, including things like shorts and crop tops, without being sexualized by men” and “it’s problematic that most clothing that is available for girls to buy/wear is revealing” are two statements that can and should coexist 🤷🏻♀️
The Beer Witch Post
(or how the stereotypical Wicked Witch is based in part on female brewsters*)
Some background:
Women have been brewing beer for nearly 10 thousand years!
That’s right! Beer is traditionally a woman’s drink, in that it was invented, produced, and drunk by women (and children) for all of recorded history. (src)
Beer only recently became associated with men (around the time it was commercialized of course!) How did this happen?
Like many things, it involved the Church and a Witch Hunt.
(Note: this post is about a western stereotype; the action takes place in Europe.) Around the 11th cent., the Church realized that brewing alcohol was a great way for monasteries to generate revenue. At the time, brewing was the domain of Germanic tribal woman, and was important bc:
there was a huge demand for ale, due to its cheapness and the lack of potable water in most households
it allowed women to generate their own income at home.
That first part smelled like profit to the Church. That second part meant female independence, which they didn’t like at all. The solution was to get women out of brewing, and monasteries in. What better way than a witch hunt?
Of course, to have a good witch hunt, first you have to invent a witch.
Inventing the Wicked Witch
As female brewsters were pushed out of their fields (being denied licenses and guild membership), the Church set up shop. Monasteries & nunneries were sort of the perfect place to manufacture, what with their land & resources & free labor. Women were still the main brewers in many communities, but this would change over the centuries as the Church waged a War of Defamation against alewives & brewesses.
The association between woman and sin has always been an easy argument to make, biblically. As women, alewives were ridiculously easy to defame. The rhetoric went something along the lines of:
women created sin
women are sinful
women use beer to spread their sinful ways & take money from men
Alewives, who ran alehouses, were cast as treacherous, deceitful women who cheated men by luring them into playgrounds for the devil, ruled by the sins of gluttony and lust.
Alewives in hell became a popular Church-spread trope:
“The Church specifically taught that alewives would be the only people left in hell after Christ freed all the damned.“ (src)
Thus, female brewers became easy target to associate with the devil, and with witchcraft.
Whether or not brewsters were outright accused of consorting with the devil, the implication was there. And later, so was the imagery.
The Church’s centuries-long smear campaign worked too, helped by the fact that as brewing became more lucrative, more men entered the field, and were happy to help push women out. By the 17th century, the (European) brewing industry was male dominated, for the first time in human history.
Witchcraft & Brewing: Symbology
The lifestyles, clothing, and tools of real women brewers were taken and used as iconography for witchcraft.
Many of the props associated with the stereotypical Wicked Witch were just common objects alewives used to denote the brewing trade.
CALUDRONS & CATS: The image of a woman standing over a boiling cauldron once had a very different connotation: ale brewing. Cats, of course, were kept around to protect the grain supply.
BROOMSTICKS: these symbols of domestic trade were used as advertisements. A broom hung outside a home or alehouse was an easy-to-recognize sign that ale was available to buy. (Keep in mind that before literacy was common, most signs would be symbolic, not written.)
THOSE BIG, DISTINCTIVE HATS: This was a marketing thing too! Wearing a large hat to stand out in the market crowd was a symbol of a brewster with wares to sell. (src)
An Alewife, in her innocent witchy attire. Simple advertising like these allowed women to sell brews that they were already often making for their families at home.
The more you know! A shoutout to all those ladies brewing throughout history, from priestesses to alewives to homemakers alike. For thousands of years, generation after generation of families were fed & watered & kept healthy by women brewing at home. Thank you ladies, for your service.
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it’s just hard not to think about the fact that in 1915, JRR Tolkien went to war not with but certainly in the same army and many of the same battles as his 3 best school friends, all nicely upper class young men who had never known much loss, and only he and one other came back alive - and a couple decades later, he wrote a book in which 3 nicely upper class young men (and one very excellent gardener) who have never known much loss go to war together, or at least they start out together, and they all come home alive. (Though one cannot bear it, and does not stay.)
What more it wasn’t just losing his friends, he was a commanding officer of a battalion of working class men. All farmers and miners from the same area of Lancashire. He felt affinity for them, but wasn’t allowed to socialize between the ranks due to military protocol and he hated it.
"The most improper job of any man ... is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."
I don’t think it was even 6 months later that he contracted trench fever and was sent home.
His entire command was wiped out in one charge shortly after, the majority of a whole countryside’s youths slaughtered while he survived. Youths who were brave and steadfast, but thought of as lesser than their superior officers while still being the ones carrying the actual battle. Youths who deserved fellowship, respect, and above all to go home and dance with their own Rosie.
“My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflection of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself”.
TRIES NOT TO CRY
There is a reason Frodo, who represents the English gentry, in the end falls and is caught by Samwise, who represents the common man.
But there is a soldier in Lord of the Rings who does not come back, and I don’t mean Boromir.
I mean the being who was a common hobbit, but who became corrupted by darkness and poison, who’s face is described in ways reminiscent of a gas mask.
The soldier who doesn’t come home, who is poisoned by gas and stress and insanity.
Is Gollum.
The Lord of the Rings repeatedly stresses the horrors of war. Eowyn's entire arc is about the truth of warfare versus the way it's glorified. She starts out glorifying war and combat and soldiers, even when her own brother is telling her war sucks and is terrible. And then in the end, she sees first hand what war does to people.
Aragorn's entire arc isn't to be the steadfast hero saving the day, it's to hold the line in terror and horror and blood while the overlooked folk are the people who save the world. And then, what makes him a king, is not his skill in battle, but his healing hands.
Which then ties into both Eowyn and Faramir's arcs. Eowyn goes into healing not because she's a weak and meek woman, but because war is horrible and saving lives is better than taking them. Aragorn is glorified within the text for his healing, and so is Eowyn.
Also, tying into the common man thing, in the movies it's Faramir but in the books it's SAMWISE who questions what brings a man so far from home to fight in a war and if he is really so different.
LOTR is anti-war propaganda.
"LOTR is anti-war propaganda"
All good war stories are
Also look at how many of the battles are told in flashback
And when it comes to how those battle scenes are handled in the books, it becomes clear that out of all the major high fantasy authors, Tolkien was the one who actually went to war
Hi! This has been bugging me for a while. What's the deal with flower crowns? Where did that come from? Every time I see a fannibal with a flower crown I'm like, "they're cute but why is everyone wearing them?" Does Bryan or the actors know or are they just going with the flow?
Hey!
It bugs a lot of people, it’s weird how it’s gotten lost in fannibal folklore this story.
I’ve had to tell Mads Mikkelsen, and the story made him feign walking off stage.
I’ve had to tell Richard Armitage just last weekend, and he was suitably confused.
SIT DOWN MY PRETTIES, I’ll TELL YOU THE TALE
So, when the show originally aired, back in the ether of 2013, it was fashionable among fandoms to edit flower crowns on their faves to make them look cuter. This was most popular in (and this is the bit where Mads Mikkelsen nearly walked off stage!) the one dir/ection fandom.
I think it took off in the Hannibal fandom for a couple of reasons:
1) Hugh Dancy’s curls, IT JUST FITS
2) The show is so dark and the crowns were cute and funny
So, it culminated when Hannibal went to SDCC after season 1 aired, fans added it to their cosplay to reflect the edits, and then Bryan Fuller and Hugh Dancy wore them during that SDCC
From there, Bryan Fuller spent the whole of Season 2 putting Flower Crowns on our faves and giving us teasers with them…
From there really other fandoms, it died out, the next fad came among, but with us, we just loved them, they’re cute and pretty and lots of room for creativity, so we kept them!
And the rest is history!
So I’m not going to reblog this post since I don’t want a huge war or anything, but it really, REALLY irks me when people say Horde Prime is supposed to be a representation of the Christian God. Below I’m going to discuss it. If you’re easily offended by Christian beliefs, please skip this post and read something else for both our sakes.
Here are the crucial differences between Horde Prime and the Christian God. First: Horde Prime doesn’t love anyone. He has his own glory to be concerned about, not that of his followers. “But Joye, YHWH is like that too!” No, it’s not the same situation. Jesus Christ, who would be in Horde Prime’s position, endured a horrific death in our place for the things we did wrong. Prime makes people pay for their sins. Jesus paid our sins for us. “But Joye, hell exists in your faith!” Yep, and that’s entirely someone’s choice. If you make a certain choice, there is a consequence for that choice, because it’s extremely unfair to just sweep bad actions under the rug if you claim to be perfect and not tolerating of sin. Jesus loves people and gave himself for their redemption so they could have a genuine, free-will relationship with God.
Speaking of free will, God gave us free will. Prime doesn’t. Prime’s choices are to lose your mind or lose your life. On the contrary, the Bible argues for the use of one’s mind and places reason very highly. Read the book of Acts for more information on this. Moving on, the very existence of hell proves that we have free will. Remember, in Prime’s world he forces people to love him through the chips. But God’s outlook in the Bible is that forced adoration is no adoration at all. He offers people His love with open arms, but a perfectly loving and holy God can’t just neglect the people harmed by evil in the world.
A final point is that Horde Prime is not God. He’s not all-knowing and doesn’t know the future, nor is he all-powerful. And Prime is a created being, while God is an uncreated and eternal being who has been love itself since before time began. There is a huge discrepancy between the two of them and I’m tired of seeing people compare them.
I got a stronger sense that Horde Prime was more representative of the church and its doctrine, not god himself
Give me a character from a fandom and I’ll spew a hot take free of charge.
- She-Ra
- The Dragon Prince
- ATLA/Korra
- Steven Universe
- Centaurworld
- Kipo (I’m on early S2 so please no spoilers!)
- Undertale
- Bug Fables
- Mistborn
- The Stormlight Archive
- The Lunar Chronicles
Marsh from mistborn!
Ah, yes. I think his unexpected resistance to Ruin kind of came out of nowhere. I’m not exactly clear on the details, but he was somehow able to fight it when no other Inquisitor could and was able to wrench the earring from Vin.
If there’s an explanation to this, ignore this crappy take. It’s been a hot minute since I read the books.
Honestly same, he had so much promise in book one I was really disappointed with his anti-climactic arc. He deserved better, and would have been a good uncle to Vin
And I think it was because Ruin was distracted for like a millisecond, and Marsh was able to take the opportunity but yeah it was just not well executed
Give me a character from a fandom and I’ll spew a hot take free of charge.
- She-Ra
- The Dragon Prince
- ATLA/Korra
- Steven Universe
- Centaurworld
- Kipo (I’m on early S2 so please no spoilers!)
- Undertale
- Bug Fables
- Mistborn
- The Stormlight Archive
- The Lunar Chronicles
Marsh from mistborn!
“Catra is overhated at this point. Watch a different show if you hate her so much.”
Posts like these make me shake my head. Catra is adored by 99% of the fandom. Everyone loves her - I haven’t met a single person who doesn’t and disliked her redemption. I love her too. I thought her redemption was alright.
I’m not saying people are wrong to like Catra. Far from it - I enjoy her too. But I don’t think people get sometimes that she’s loved and adored so much that people DO end up excusing some of her bad actions. This is coming from a Shadow Weaver fan who has actual unpopular opinions about the character.
I’m glad she got a redemption arc but it doesn’t stop her from being a huge dick for most of the show. Like. A gigantic piece of shit.
